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Chapter 128 - 123: What’s the Fuss?

Chapter 128: Chapter 123: What’s the Fuss?

Upon hearing Lair’s well-intentioned reminder, all Karim could do was clench his teeth tight.

At this moment, no matter how furious he was inside, he had to endure!

Karim had already pressed the blade against his right arm, a hasty decision made in intense desperation—he knew better than anyone that he was not prepared.

But at this moment, prepared or not, he had to act! It was for the sake of everyone’s survival! It was just an arm after all!

However, as soon as Karim thought to exert force, he encountered fierce resistance.

When bending an arm, one can feel a hard, elongated object within the joint—the tendon.

Karim’s tendons were resisting him, protecting him.

Karim suddenly froze; he finally snapped out of the heated impulsiveness and clearly understood that he was about to slowly carve off his own arm.

"..."

For anyone, self-harm is a nearly impossible task, let alone for Karim in his current state where a single determined effort wouldn’t end it all!

He wasn’t that fortunate...

He would have to inflict prolonged harm on himself, excruciating pain that would accompany him for a significant duration. And then, there was the constant need to endure pain and continue to harm one’s self, a sense of despair and fear that one could not easily overcome!

Just imagining such an act was unbearable, let alone having to do it oneself.

"..." Karim’s breathing grew heavy, his vision suddenly distorted. Inside his head, there was nothing but the sound of his breathing and his heartbeat.

A profound sense of fear began to gnaw at him.

Lair was well aware of Karim’s situation, and because he knew, he intentionally gave Karim only a small knife—he wanted to see the pained expression on Karim’s face.

"What’s wrong?" Lair urged with a gleeful smile, "Hurry up and do it, or else..."

"I know!"

Karim was breaking down, his facial features twisted in intense agony, tears uncontrollably streaming from the corners of his eyes.

Amidst his increasingly labored breaths, sounding like thunderclaps, Karim finally made up his mind and channeled strength into his left hand!

"...Arghhhhhh!!!!"

"...Hahahahahahahaha!"

But then, at that moment, Lair suddenly burst into a shrill, piercing laughter.

"..." Karim froze, looking toward Lair in confusion.

Lair clapped his hands and said, "What an expression, you’ve shown me something interesting indeed, very good! To be honest, I couldn’t care less about your arm, I just wanted to see that look on your face! Hahahaha! Alright, you can go get your stuff now."

"...!"

Karim was suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of having narrowly escaped disaster; he tumbled and scrambled towards the supply box, eagerly opening it.

But the next moment, Karim’s expression froze.

"...Lair!" Karim roared, "Why are there only a few bottles of Suppressants in the box? What do you mean by this?"

Lair spread his hands innocently, "Oh right, I forgot that most of the Suppressants from that box have already been taken. But hey, I kept my promise, don’t blame me, okay?"

"You bastard!"

Just as Karim was about to pounce on Lair, he was kicked over, and then many feet rained down on him like a storm, each one bringing excruciating pain.

Karim understood that no one here could defy Lair; he quickly began to wail:

"Wait! I was wrong! Please forgive me! I’ll give you my arm... no! My life! Please give me more supplies!"

Hearing this, Lair walked over, and the others stopped kicking Karim, making way for Lair.

"What do you think you are?" Lair looked down at Karim with disdain, "Without Jed, your so-called Tower isn’t worth a damn, and what are you? Get lost, killing you would be too dirty for the ground."

"..." Karim fell silent.

He knew all too well how true Lair’s words were.

Indeed, without Jed, what was he?

Karim silently stood up, clutching the few remaining bottles of Suppressants from the supply box tightly to his chest, and then... left amidst the piercing laughter of the others.

...

Xiao Yi and Xu Woshi returned to the Tower and heard that Karim had made a trip to Lair’s place and was now discussing something with the doctor in the medical office.

Consequently, the two of them once again visited the medical office. Immediately upon entering, they witnessed the scene unraveling before them.

Karim, with his back to the doctor and facing the wall, spoke in a trembling voice, "I don’t understand why you all want me to be the leader. I said I can’t be the leader, but you insist on it! I clearly can’t do anything!"

"That’s not true," the doctor said. "If it weren’t for your words of hope, everyone would probably have already given in to despair and taken their own lives by now."

"Anyone could do that!" Karim shouted. "I only said those things to stay alive! I’m not some remarkable person! I’m just a salesman, who, because I fought tooth and nail, managed to save enough money to buy my own house so I wouldn’t have to rent anymore. That’s all! Lair is right! Without Jed, I’m nothing! He’s right! I don’t deserve to lead the Tower. It should be you and Jed. I’m just greedy for life, afraid of death, a worthless coward!"

As Karim spoke, his emotions were nearing collapse! He suddenly lashed out with his fist, violently striking the wall!

With just one punch, his knuckles were bloodied and flesh torn, yet he continued to strike the wall!

The doctor was startled and moved quickly to intervene.

"Stop!"

"Let go of me!"

At that moment, both Xiao Yi and Xu Woshi, looking embarrassed at the door, were spotted by the two men.

"Uh..." Xiao Yi’s eyes avoided contact, "Maybe we came at a bad time."

"...No, it’s good that you’re back safely," Karim said. "Tell me about your situation."

"No," the doctor shook his head, "Let’s treat your hand first."

"..."

After the doctor had treated the wounds on his hand, Karim looked at Xiao Yi and the others, asking,

"So, how many Mutants did you clear out?"

"All of them," Xiao Yi replied promptly.

"All of them?" Karim was stunned. He remembered there were hundreds of Mutants in the power station! He thought that if Xiao Yi and the others could reduce the number by twenty to thirty percent today, it would have been quite good. He didn’t expect them to clear them all out!

"You two young people are unexpectedly strong, very good. Then I’ll send people to repair the power station," Karim immediately dispatched people to repair the power station.

There was no need to lie about such things. As soon as the repair team checked, they would know what was really happening.

What surprised Karim was how quickly the repair team returned.

However ... for some reason, the man’s face was pale, and he was shaking all over.

Karim inquired with concern, "Is the power station fixed?"

"Fi ... fixed."

"And the Mutants are all cleared out?"

"...Yes."

"Then why are you making that face? What on earth happened over there?"

"Well..."

The man glanced surreptitiously at Xiao Yi and Xu Woshi, then leaned closer to Karim, lowering his voice to whisper the situation he had witnessed.

Listening, Karim suddenly froze in shock.

Then he suddenly stood up, yelling incredulously, "...Ah!!! What did you say!? You’re saying the entire sector’s Mutants have been cleared out!? How ... how many Mutants would that be!?"

The doctor, who was drinking water at the time, choked when she heard this, letting out an "Ah!" in shock.

But that wasn’t the end of it. Whatever the man said next scared Karim so much that he leaped into the air as if he had just taken flight.

"WTF!!!? You’re saying the Super Night Demon was killed too!?"

"...!" The doctor listening nearby slipped from her chair and fell to the floor.

Xiao Yi and Xu Woshi were utterly bewildered. What the heck was going on with these people?

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